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Athens, LA

Dec 30, 2007

A brave soldier recalls New Year's, 1945

“Wherever in the Ardennes the American soldier met the German ... on anything like even terms, he overcame him.”

Murry Van Hooser prayed he would live through New Year's Day, 1945. Holed up with 200 other airborne troops in an old French armory built in the 1500s, PFC Van Hooser really had no idea the odds were so tilted ... via News-Star

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